Ritner, Deacon Henry A.

RITNER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/7/2007 at 10:28:58

Deacon Henry A. Ritner of Danville, son of Ex-Governor Ritner of Pennsylvania, one of the founders of our state convention and a prominent man in the denomination, was killed on the railroad by a singular accident in April, 1863. He had some sons in the army and had been at Burlington, as we remember the circumstance, to see something about sending them some relief or token of affection. He was walking on the track, and being a little deaf, and perhaps lost in abstracted thought, a train struck him from behind and he was killed.
(Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists, Burdette Company, Burlington, Iowa, 1886)